Tim Legler

Like, what do you do without Cade Cunningham if you have to navigate the Eastern Conference playoffs?

How are you going to settle games?

Cade Cunningham is the guy that does that for them.

And he takes a lot more shots than he does for the team.

You think there's any chance Detroit, Charlotte, first round, Charlotte wins that series?

Well, what they're going to have to solve is you get into a series and game by game,

teams figure out even more ways to make sure the guys they want left open are left open.

Right.

And Detroit has a few of those guys and their guys that they have to play because that's their style.

They get into people.

They, they force turnovers and run.

They get on the offensive glass, like their wings crash from the wings in the opposite corners.

But they, that's, that's their formula.

Get to the line, get points in the paint.

Well, if you're now playing a team that's well-coached and they do some of those things well, they secure their own defensive glass.

They don't give up points in the paint.

They don't turn the ball over.

I just described Boston in a lot of ways.

They don't do those things.

And now you've got a guy like Missoula who's like, okay, let's look at this team.